Hi Frank,
Thank you for that information.
(All the COBOL I support(ed) didn't contain these and neither did my
university courses in the '70s.)
If I wanted to look them up, which keyword(s) would I use?
Thanks and regards,
David
On 2020-04-07 15:49, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Internal subroutines and local variables have been supported since COBOL 1985
(VS COBOL II era).
They're not ideal, but they do exist.
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How about no internal subroutines with local variables?
On 2020-04-07 14:47, Bob Bridges wrote:
I used to bad-mouth COBOL, and I still prefer languages that are less wordy. But I came
somewhat reluctantly to see that it has its strengths. The one I think most important is
that it encourages even novice programmers to organize their logic in what we used to
call a "top-down" manner: This paragraph accomplish a certain task by
executing paragraphs one through three, then two more, and this subparagraph executes
subsubparagraphs, and so on. Forms good habits, I think.
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I learned Assembler first and then Cobol and then some PL/1. I always felt
each language had its strengths and weaknesses and all were like tools in a
toolbox.
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